raijin

Ellen Allien is quality, she's releasing a couple split eps with Matthew Dear next.

Ricardo, Luciano, Hawtin, etc are great artists.. but are most defintely NOT electro..

On a side note.. anyone going to be in Berlin around the time of the love parade?

Thanks for the reccomendations everyone.

I'll defintely stop by some of these places.

Anyone know music stores in San Francisco for downtempo, IDM, post-jazz type of stuff?

Edited by raijin on Feb 16, 2006 at 09:18 PM

Object-Dyed black leather gloves with feather lining

Scarlet cotton/viscose pants with exposed zipper

Assymetrical waist black wool pants

All Carol Christian Poell

Anyone want a pair of these?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7720467709

As far as I know, they've only retailed at 2 places in the world, 10 corso como comme des garcons in Tokyo and Dover St. Market.

I might lower the price if you email me at [email protected]

I own a fair bit from Altieri and Poell.

As Leviathan said, Poell's is a more tailored line while C Diem is supposed to be ultra-casual.

If you are going for a suit or long-coat, Poell is without a doubt the guy. I tend to find his things easier to wear. They are masterfully cut clothes in beautiful fabrics with a few interesting design twists. C Diem is a whole look unto itself, not much goes with it other than more C Diem and its not really fit for formal occasions or anything requiring collared shirt, formal trousers and tie.

C Diem is actually based on work-wear, and in my opinion develops every season to get better (altieri is an artist..so his original experiments have evolved into the items we see every season in this brand today)

You can think about looking into Linea and Fattoamano, two experimental lines of Maurizio Altieri. Linea has been discontinued and is selling at maxfield, very little at A, Chegini, and Lift Etage. It runs $800-$1400 for non-leather pants, $500 for shirts, $2400+ for leather pants and shirts, and $3-5k for leather jackets. All the items are made in extreme small quantities with experimental fabrics.. they can almost be seen as one offs. The look is completely different.. being ultra-slim (more so than dior homme) with black,white,and grey as the main colors. Fattoamano is like the reborn line of Linea.. so far no us stockists for it.

However, I think if your only seeing the stock at A of these brands.. your opinion would be pretty biased because the buyers there buy very little of these two designers (everything must be slim and black.. no leather) compared to places like Lift Etage in Tokyo and Leclaireur.

Its quite hard to mix the two, with the exception of the boots.

Im not sure any of you guys have seen the beasts that are japanese vaio's.

They have a 1.7 pound carbon fiber here

It is possible for clothing to be incredibly original,although not 100%.

Look at CCP or the early creations of comme.

AD:hoc has closed down.

There is a special store for denim lovers called DOUBLE XX, I will see if I have the address.

There is also 'nevertheless' (selling undercover,sifury,visvim)

and a few others.

I'll seond that, streetwear is dead to me too.

Fuck off.

Helmut's are very good for the price and great understated look.

The cut is great as well.

I have to agree, the designs were never anything special.

Linea and Anatomica Project have the most amazing ts period.

2 words: Lift Etage

ring ring knows what hes talking about when it comes to denim quality,

I doubt you could say the same.

Gold, you own any C diem/Lma pieces or CCP pieces?

New list for a new year.

No order as usual.

Label Under Construction

Lmaltieri

Carpe Diem <-- the holy trinity

Linea

Rick Owens

Carol Christian Poell <-- The Almighty Master

Issey Miyake

Ann Demeulemeester

Honorable Mentions:

Balenciaga <-- nice drop notch lapel this season.

Haute <-- Nice cords and other items, the beat up leather doesn't do it for me.

CDG H+ and Junya <-- Interesting design, but others seem to do it better. Designs becoming a little too commercial.

The quality of Vogue Homme editorials has been bad lately..

The brands that they place the most coverage on are quite boring.

doesn't look that great..

not original.

whats the prices like?

i'd hem then..

the only reason not to is if it interferes with the designers vision of how it was meant to be worn.

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Edited by raijin on Dec 7, 2004 at 06:17 PM

yen is the new evisu.

Dsquared is tacky and overpriced too imo.

Its basically a glorified a & f.

nice to see someone else is familiar with paul hardnen on this board.

He does some great linen and leather jackets.

the bape store is invite or appointment only.